Faculty

The Neshamah Institute is a collaboration of talented volunteers and faculty dedicated to bringing the highest level of Jewish education to the South Florida community.

Lori Neiberg

Lori Neiberg was born and raised in Miami, Florida. Her childhood was filled with a traditional Jewish upbringing. As a high school senior, she attended the Alexander Muss High School in Israel program. With the completion of the program, she was committed to learn more about Judaism. Lori attended Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was one of the first people to design a course of study and graduate from Tulane with a degree in Jewish Studies/Education.

Lori has worked as a teacher for the past 30 years at various Jewish schools throughout Chicago and South Florida. In Chicago she headed the Midwest region for recruitment to the Alexander Muss High School in Israel. For the last ten years, Lori has been preparing both youth and adults for becoming a Bar/Bat Mitzvah in Broward and Palm Beach County. She has also worked with various synagogues organizing and educating the congregation in becoming skilled and inspiring Torah readers.

Lori is married with three grown sons. She is an active participant in triathlons and currently resides in Parkland, Florida.

Shelley Katz

Shelley earned her degree and obtained my masters in Hebrew and Judaic Studies. She then attended the Hebrew Teachers Seminary in South Africa. She and her husband emigrated to the USA in 1995 and she has taught Hebrew & Judaic Studies at David Posnack, B’nai Torah and for the last 13 years at Donna Klein Jewish Academy. Shelley is passionate about instilling a love of Judaism and Jewish history, as well as a love of the Hebrew language, and our rich heritage to her students. Shelley is honored to be a part of the Neshamah Institute where she has been teaching since its beginning in 2010. She loves spending time with her husband and their three beautiful children.

Limor Greenberg

Limor Grinberg was born and raised in Israel. She attended Bar Illan University with a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work and Jewish Art.

She has taught children and adolescents for six years in Israel as a substitute Hebrew and Jewish art teacher. In 2010, she relocated to Florida with her husband, and completed her Master’s in Social Work at Barry University.

Limor perceives teaching Hebrew and Judaism as a mission. She is excited to be part of Neshamah Institute.

Shlomit Karasik

Shlomit Karasik is a licensed Clinical Social Worker who her Bachelor’s and Master Degrees from Florida Atlantic University and holds a Specialist Degree in Education with a specialty in Guidance and Counseling.

In 2013, Shlomit joined JFS (Jewish Family Services) to work as a Counseling Outreach Coordinator. Her work includes partnering with The Neshamah Institute in providing services including (but not limited to): case management, counseling, psychiatric services, financial assistance, meals on wheels, food pantry, and various senior services including assistance to holocaust survivors, as well as assistance with rides, companions, and friendly visitors.

Shlomit is also available to consult about specific topics including: divorce and changing families, special needs, eating disorders, domestic violence, senior services, loss and bereavement and much more. The possibility of an in home assessment may be available.

Susan attended Michigan State University and graduated with a Bachelors degree in Psychology and Child Development. In 1989, she moved to Florida with her husband and began teaching at Donna Klein Jewish Academy, which later merged with Zale Early Childhood Preschool. Susan shared her love of children and Judaism by providing her students with a nurturing, exciting Jewish experience.

In 2001, Susan and her husband were blessed with a baby boy. Susan left the classroom at this time and began interviewing and assessing children for entrance into a local private school. There, she helped students PK3 through 12th grade feel more comfortable and secure while working in a testing environment. More recently, Susan’s family celebrated a wonderful event when their son became a Bar Mitzvah. Rabbi Rader guided them through this most joyous and meaningful occasion in their lives. Susan was so inspired that she wanted to go back to her Jewish roots and began teaching at the Neshamah Institute.

She currently prepares students who are studying for their upcoming B’nai Mitzvahs and looks forward to bringing Jewish studies into the lives of the children in our community.

Cantor Sharon Steinberg

Cantor Sharon Steinberg joined the faculty of the Neshamah Institute in January 2015. Prior to that, she served Beth El Hebrew Congregation in Alexandria, VA (11 years), Baltimore Hebrew Congregation (2 years) and Temple Shalom in Chevy Chase, MD (7 years). At all three temples, in addition to other cantorial duties, she ran the B’nei Mitzvah programs. Cantor Sharon believes strongly in the importance and value of Jewish education and feels it is a privilege to teach our youth.

Cantor Sharon earned her cantorial credential from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion’s Debbie Friedman School of Music. She also holds a masters degree in music from Indiana University and a bachelors degree in music from Ithaca College. Prior to her service to the Jewish community, Cantor Sharon served as a professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Essex Community College, The Baltimore School for the Arts and University of Wisconsin in Green Bay; and she had a successful operatic and concert career, singing all over the world. Highlights of her performance career include a duet recital at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall and soprano soloist in a concert of excerpts from La Bohème, in Siena, Italy which was recorded and subsequently shown on Italian National Television.

Cantor Sharon is the proud mother of 3 young men, Rob, Dan and James.

Cantor Anita Schubert

Anita Schubert grew up in Queens and Lynbrook, Long Island. She attended
a congregational Hebrew school and community Hebrew high school, as well
as taking courses in Hebrew and other Jewish studies in college. She received
her B.S. in education at the University of Rochester and M.S. in human nutrition at
the University of Maryland.

Anita did most of her cantorial and general music studies in the Washington,
D.C. area. Between 1991 and 2015 she served congregations in Maryland,
New Jersey, and Evanston, IL, and most recently in Manchester, CT for 14
years. Her scope of work in most of her pulpits included teaching in the
Hebrew schools and b’nai mitzvah training as well as adult education.

In addition to teaching at NI, Anita is the Co-Music Editor of an anthology of compositions by members of the Women Cantors’ Network, and Music Editor of an anthology of Jewish feminist compositions, both to be published in 2019-20.

Gail Bank

I grew up and was educated in South Africa. I have been a secular as well as Judaic educator for over 25 years. My husband Alan and I have two wonderful sons who are 27 and 25, and we have resided in Boca Raton for 25 years.

I am very excited to be a part of the Neshama Institute.

Rabbi Stephanie Shore

Rabbi Stephanie Shore has been tutoring Bar/Bat Mitzvah students since she was 16 years old. She enjoys working with the students and loves to hear them chant the Hebrew prayers and blessings. She cherishes L’dor Vador from generation to generation and appreciates you blessing us with your children.

Jessica Turnoff

Jessica served as Cantor at Temple Beth Am in Jupiter, FL for 12 years. She has also worked with Temple Beth El of Boca Raton, The Mark Center for Jewish Excellence, and a number of other congregations around the U.S.

Rabbi Cantor Sharon Steinberg

Rabbi Cantor Sharon Steinberg came to Neshama in 2015 after serving as a cantor in URJ (Reform) synagogues in the DC Metropolitan area for over 20 years. In 2013, she completed a rabbinic program, and currently, in addition to her duties with Neshama, is the spiritual leader of Temple Beth Shira in Boca. Her love of children and her commitment to teach and inspire the next generation of the Jewish people led her to join the faculty of the Neshama Institute. She holds two degrees in music from Ithaca College and Indiana University; her cantorial credential is through Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and she was ordained as a rabbi through the Rabbinical Academy of America.

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